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Law to be revised to outlaw daggers, lethal swords

Thursday, 17 July 2008

The National Police Agency (NPA) decided Thursday to outlaw the possession of daggers and other lethal swords following a deadly random attack in Tokyo's Akihabara in which the culprit used a dagger, officials said.

The NPA will submit to the Diet a bill to revise the Firearms and Swords Control Law for the first time in 46 years to that end.

The current law bans the possession of swords with a 15-centimeter or longer blade without permission from a prefectural public safety commission.

The dagger used in the Akihabara rampage had a 13-centimeter blade and is not subject to the ban under the current law.

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